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I dunno though. The scene in Conan the Barbarian where he retrains battle axe mastery didn't look that weird.

I think Weapon Mastery should provide something extra and access to an additional mastery would not have been a bad idea as per the final version in the playtest but I would be reluctant to gift every mastery to every weapon because I like weapons retaining some unique flavour. I think the...

Personally, I thought masteries should only have been applied to rangers and fighters because Barbarians, Rogues, and Paladins didn't really need more combat versatility to make them effective. Ladling it onto every martial class just complicates every round of combat quite considerably. Even...

That's why it needs to be coupled with the ability to lift as much as a huge character and trip like a huge creature (or +2 capped at 19 and large if gauntlets of ogre power). You could also include bonuses to skills. There are pros and cons. The 3e version was very limp but I struggle to...

I dislike the items that grant a static score. I have adopted a sort of hybrid version of +4 strength (capped as determined by the type of belt) but you are treated as huge for the purposes of lifting, carrying, pushing, grappling, and tripping. I took inspiration from Mutants and Masterminds...

The Adventure Begins contained a bite-sized introduction.

I think the Thief's ability is intended to represent cutting the right corners to cast a spell quickly balanced by the chance of failure. Taking a level of spell-caster can't remove the chance of failure but expertise could, so this makes me nervous. We've never really used scrolls in our...

Even rules as written it's tough to maintain. But if you are already wielding a light weapon and shield you either have to sheath your main weapon at the end of your first attack and draw your second weapon for your bonus action attack. You are now no longer equipped with your original weapon...

That part I get, but what I meant was, despite having advantage, the rogue now needs heavy obscurement or total cover to hide in combat. Literally hiding in shadows as a concept is now dead, which is a change from the previous version of the feat. A DM might rule that the rogue needs cover or...

It feels weird that skulker doesn't allow you to hide in shadows any more. Presumably now, you roll your stealth before you encounter the enemy (while you have total concealment - effectively moving silently on approach) and if you remain shadow, they would get -5 on passive perception?

Yeah I would have said limiting the number of rituals can learn to your intelligence score plus proficiency would have been better. Only changing one you know when you level up. Still favours wizards then but wouldn't bar higher level rituals from non casters.

Quite a few things I like but quite a few have left me scratching my head. Two characters make use of the Ritual Caster Feat in our campaign - my Tome Warlock via invocation and our highly intelligent fighter, who multiclassed into bard because he became obsessed with lore and prophecy. He...

Yeah I guess you could allow the fighter a second bonus action attack at 20 to make up for weapon size.

Yes I think it's a clever way to elevate light weapons for classes other than rogues and gives options for different combinations. People who want to go for a classic two weapon fighter or ranger.

The playtest allowed you train additional masteries on existing weapons but only allowed you to swap them on a long rest unless a high level fighter. Those mechanics never made it to the final version, with the exception of swapping in sap as a level 9 fighter. If property juggling was...

One other possible solution to weapon juggling is to rule that if you draw a weapon as part of an attack, you can't apply a weapon mastery to that attack unless the weapon has the thrown property and is thrown as part of that attack?

I've never played a character with a maxed stat. Bounded accuracy means that, while there will always be some monsters who are harder to fight than others, you don't NEED to max out your stats. I actually find a group of min max characters to be more cliche and often terrible at social...

The Implication is clear that these are magic mushrooms. The wizard is hallucinating so bad that they hallucinate things as they truly are.

I do think that there should be qualitative differences between dropping, drawing, and stowing. The former is really easy, and the latter is far more difficult. Even just sheathing a dagger or tucking an axe in a belt is tricky when one is dodging and weaving in melee and stowing a bow is a...

Sometimes it's important to know if they are physically touching the door, using an object to batter it down (like the dwarf's head), or whether two characters are helping each other to batter the door. It doesn't require much elaboration and much of the time it doesn't matter, but if the door...